Canvas

Canvas is a learning management system (LMS). Many districts adopted CANVAS as part of improving their access to distance learning.

How do I create a CANVAS Course?

• Ask your administration (or Tech person - roles vary by site) to create a course for your incoming class by Promotion year

• Archive courses when that grad year leaves the school

Create a Course Card that displays on the students' dashboard:

• Find a picture you want to represent your library

• How to add an image for a course card

  • For best practice, images should be approximately 262 pixels wide by 146 pixels high.

At minimum to start school:

• Upload your profile picture

• add your contact information

• Create a Home Page: What are Pages?

  • Designate your Front-page in a course

  • There are 2 steps: designate the page itself in pages, and also in the course status section on your current home page. The LBUSD Default is set to Modules as your Home Page.

• Post Week 1 - Create your first week's module with pages and assignments

  • Some Schools ask that Modules be organized by weeks so that students can easily see what they missed when absent.

• Grading Scale and Weights - Make sure you are following your department's approved guidelines

What do you want students to see on your home page?

• Library Orientation

• Link to Library catalog

• Link to Schedule

• About the Library Staff

• Library Tour

• Databases

• Link to Public Library

Resources

• Growing with Canvas Self-Paced Course

• Canvas Instructor Orientation and Training

• Canvas Community

• Dashboard Guide

• Canvas for Librarians Facebook Group (request to join) - Now renamed Library Tech Talk

  • Canvas Resources Facebook Groups Helpful links from the Librarian's Facebook Group

• Enable the secret join code to self-enroll

Pages

• Make simple Buttons

• How to send a page to another instructor

• How to copy a page to another course

• Canvas for Littles Series: Creating a Button-Based Homepage

  • Getting rid of table gridlines

• Embed your Bitmoji Classroom in Canvas - Interactive

  • From your google slides: file, share, publish to the web, copy embed code. Go to your canvas page, edit, embed symbol, paste embed code, save

• Canvas for Littles - making canvas accessible

• How do I upload a .pdf to a course?

• How do I insert a google doc into a course?

• Convert a .pdf to a jpg

Club Sites:

• An administrator must create a new CANVAS course for a club CANVAS site

• How to create a group for mailing in your CANVAS Course

Helpful hints:

• CTRL + Z = Undo

• Take-A-Screenshot.org